beliefs
On the border between Estonia and Russia, a rusting Soviet tank becomes the center of a surreal battle for identity, proving that the memory of power is stronger than steel.
A poetic documentary exploring the mysterious world of ticks, their role in the ecosystem, and their unsettling parallels with humanity’s impact on nature.
A music video in collaboration between BFM film students and the EKA-based boy band ANTS1. It's a tastefully wild and rocking piece of work!
A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.
Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...
In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.
When a stage director Anna and a businessman Maxim meet they both get the feeling that they have known each other for ages. Nevertheless they can't take their relationship further due to personal values and social norms. One day Anna comes to a regression therapy and finds out about her previous lives.
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
In 2016 several fires destroyed several buildings on the island of Piirissaare, among the also the Old Believers prayer house. Praskovja, the 84-year- old choir singer and important member of the community, lost her childhood´s house in one the fires and she is trying to get on her feet down again and continue living.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.
Life finds a way.
A blacksmith battling a severe disease begins the last great job of his life - the creation of a sword made of Damascus steel.
A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.
Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.
Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.
Helpful Miriam builds the Gnome a cart so that it would be easier for him to bring presents. But do the gnomes really exist...?
Residents of Luutsniku village in Haanja county, Estonia, still believe in werewolves as their superstition is fed by legends, envy and gossips.
It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, and gets cruelly cast down.
The Moon and the folk wisdom and beliefs related to it.
Poetic documentary by Peeter Tooming about traditional beliefs and environmental protection.
A documentary about the cultural and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in 1969 and 1970. The footage was shot in Nenetsia, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia and Estonia.